Discover Madrid as an ideal location for your R&D and innovation centre. Madrid is the main scientific and technologic hub in Spain.

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Madrid
A place for science and technology

2. Madrid: a home for entrepreneurship
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DYNAMIC ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM
Madrid is home to 21.1% of all companies
created in Spain in 2015. More businesses are
established each year in the city of Madrid
than in Barcelona, Valencia, Seville and
Zaragoza all together.
Largest national concentration of high-
growth, high-potential start-ups: 20% of total.
Madrid is one of the European cities with the
highest number of business accelerator and
incubator schemes for entrepreneurs.
Thanks to the innovation-friendly
environment of the region, Google has
opened an Entrepreneur Campus in Madrid,
the 2nd in Europe after the London Campus.
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3. Advanced business environment
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Madrid is one of the largest aeronautical clusters in
Europe and the centre of the aerospace sector in
Spain (AIRBUS, BOEING, BOMBARDIER and others),
comprising 65% of the sector turnover.
18 of the 25 biggest biomedical and pharmaceutical
companies in the world are present in Madrid
(72%). Madrid is home to 35% of all scientific
production in Spain.
The headquarters of all the big telecom companies
operating in Spain and nearly 50% of all IT firms are
housed in Madrid.
Madrid also has powerful clusters in the automotive
sector, the publishing industry and in renewable
energy, among others.
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HIGH-TECH INDUSTRY
50%
65%
72%

4. Advanced business environment
Source: (1) DATACOMEX 2015; (2) EUROSTAT 2015
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The region of Madrid lies 2nd in Spain in terms of industrial
production and 3rd in terms of export volume, while being the
leading region for technological exports.(1)
Madrid is the national leader in engineering:
 39% of companies
 75% of revenue
 47% of total employment in the sector.
No. 2 region in the EU-28 for technology-related
employment: 220,000 professionals working in the high-tech
industrial and services sectors (35.3% of Spanish high-tech
jobs). (2)
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5. Madrid: Spain's leading R&D centre
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R&D INVESTMENT DRIVE
Spanish region in terms of money for R&D:
3,435 million euros, 1.75 % of GDP (Spain
allocates 1.24%). (1)
Madrid is home to 43 of the 135 National R&D
Network centres. (2)
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6. Leading the way in private research
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LEADING THE WAY IN PRIVATE R&D
CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE
A great many multinationals have assigned their
centres of excellence to Madrid in order to carry
out important research work:
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